“Take your mind off me,” pleads Win Butler on the title track of Arcade’s Fire seventh album, Pink Elephant. He wishes. With a tone of fragile hopelessness, Butler and his Canadian-US ensemble grind ...

When Merge Records released Arcade Fire's debut album, Funeral, on Sept. 14, 2004, nothing else sounded quite like it. With ramshackle, frenetic arrangements, thrift-store instrumentation and madcap ...

Arcade Fire wasted no time declaring its purpose Saturday at a mostly full United Center. “Gotta get the spirit out of me,” vocalist-guitarist Win Butler repeatedly sang on the opening “Age of Anxiety ...

Arcade Fire released some of the best albums of the 2000s and 2010s. Two of those are Funeral, which is a classic album that has inspired many different artists and The Suburbs, which won the group ...

Mother’s Day weekend brings us a motherlode of new music releases, including anticipated titles from Arcade Fire, Blake Shelton, Andre 3000, Maren Morris, Kali Uchis, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Sleep ...

The inaugural event, set for L.A.'s Ross House on Dec. 9, will be hosted by Sean Penn and Ann Lee with help from E! News ...

Arcade Fire’s seventh album is a too-careful, too-canny exercise in restraint. It lacks the soul and spirit the band is known for. Aside from those curiously tacky outliers, Lanois’ tasteful ambience ...

The Montreal-born rock band has never lacked ambition, and that continues to be the case, two decades into a remarkable career. “It’s the age of doubt / and I doubt we’ll figure it out,” Win Butler ...